An investment grade rating reflects the credit rating agencies' belief that the probability of payment of the bond is high and the financial risk associated with the investment is low.

Private investment, particularly in productive sectors, remained low due to an ongoing lack of confidence of potential investors in the political situation.

As a result, new elementary teachers with four year diplomas were still being hired at a grade level applicable to less qualified teachers and below the level granted to preparatory teachers with the same qualifications.

Investment in China s manufacturing sector was low in December, but infrastructure investment improved slightly. As such, fixed asset investment for the month will remain the same as that in November.

With respect to finance for investment into food processing, typical minimum investment costs for a medium sized processing plant would normally be in the range of US 5 million.

Cumulative growth rate of fixed asset investment in December is forecast to be at 7.2 , unchanged from the previous month, but lower than that a year ago.

The low costs of finance facilitated global investment, thereby contributing to the acceleration of global growth in 2004.

One proposed approach would reduce the significance of the raters opinions. In many cases, the importance of ratings comes partly from legal requirements that oblige or encourage institutional investors and investment vehicles to maintain portfolios of assets that have received sufficiently high grades from the recognized agencies.

It has to be investing in low carbon technologies and infrastructures.

An investment in youth is an investment in the future.

Investing in preparedness and risk reduction

The involvement of private investment is still relatively low.

Subprogramme 4 Economic analysis

Subprogramme 4

First, Peru is promoting the limitation of defence spending at the regional level in order to release resources for social investment.

However their promotion usually stops at the lower and middle levels the higher the management level the lower is women apos s participation.

In 2015, Brazil's participation in global direct investment was 3.7 , down from 5.7 in 2014.

The project will assist the Investment Management Service in mitigating exposure to various risk factors.

Knowledge and technology have contributed less and less to economic growth as a result of lower investment rates.

I). The investment rate of 18.6 per cent in 1997 for Africa remained well below the level necessary to sustain satisfactory growth.

One answer lies in the fact that China s FDI policy over the past 30 years has crowded out Chinese investors from high return projects, forcing them to settle for less lucrative projects. But there are still potential investors who cannot find any suitable investment opportunities in China, generating excess resources, which in turn are invested in US government securities.

That area continues to receive much lower levels of resources from the donor community compared to the funding available for humanitarian response and conflict situations.

The minimum salary of a teacher with the lowest professional qualifications must not be below the amount that is equal to two minimum monthly salaries.

In 2015, Brazil's international direct investment was 64.6 billion, down from 73.1 billion in 2014.

We have good estimates of the minimum investment needed to establish an adequate health system.

Licensing requirements for foreign investment have also been reduced, making investment easier for enterprises.

At the same time, since returns to capital are kept low by high wages, very little investment occurs. The excess of savings over investment flows abroad as capital exports.

Their extent depends, by rule, on pension seniority and the level of salaries.

The joint high level session of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) with UNCTAD's Commission on Investment, Technology and Related Financial Issues focused on attracting FDI in service clusters.

First, they were trapped in a vicious circle of low income, low savings and low investment, leading to low productivity and low growth.

Good Governance in Investment Promotion

4. Agreements on investment exist at the bilateral, regional and multilateral levels.

61. Manufacturing in Africa is dominated by three labour intensive, resource based, low technology industries which focus narrowly on the primary processing of locally produced agricultural and mineral commodities and absorb 85 per cent of total investment.

Indeed, though it can currently borrow at 1.6 on a long maturity, it has used its recent capital raising exercise to reduce leverage rather than substantially increase its loan portfolio, as would be warranted at a time of retrenchment in private lending. In any case, a rating change would hardly affect funding costs in the current low yield environment, as lower rated sovereigns have demonstrated.

In the said case the monthly wage shall not be less than the minimum wage.

Investing heavily in research and development of low carbon energy, solar power, or other new technologies would become cheaper than fossil fuels much more quickly. Economic estimates show that for every 1 spent, we would do 16 worth of good.

Although his Government had taken steps to encourage industrialized countries, international financial institutions and private investors to invest in Ukraine, the level of direct foreign investment remained well below what the country could absorb.

There is a need to address the problem of undercapitalization and low productivity.

The world also faces a serious investment problem, which the low cost of capital has done virtually nothing to overcome. Public sector investment is now below the level needed to sustain robust growth, owing to its insufficient contribution to aggregate demand and productivity gains.

Investment agreements which signal that investment is valued and that all investors will be treated fairly also promote investment.

86. Investing in human resources.

31. In addition, to enable investors to minimize their risks and to diversify their portfolios, there is a need to widen the investment sphere. This requires assisting the MFIs which are potentially eligible for this kind of investment in making their case vis à vis potential investors.

An investment climate providing legal protections for investors could help to attract technology based investments.

Declining investment rates represent the principal cause behind poor economic performance as they were on average 4 per cent below the investment rates for the developing world.

As a result the original lowest bidders were requested to revise their proposals to reflect the manpower levels reflected by the second lowest bidder.